Whoa, I thought Ubuntu was the most popular distribution. Arch and even Linux Mint are beating it?

ShinTakuya 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

The average Linux gamer is likely to have a very different setup to the average Linux user in general. It's a subset of a subset.

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aeonik 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Arch is rolling release and bleeding edge.

This helps a LOT with games, especially new ones needing the latest drivers or hardware support.

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cheschire 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Coming from being a Windows power user for decades, Mint just felt like more of a natural shift for my daily driving than Ubuntu. I wonder if that's a common opinion or if there's another driver.

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Jach 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The survey only shows Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS and Ubuntu Core 22 for 8.25% vs Mint's 22.1 and 22.2 at 9.21%. There's a whole 18.04% hiding in the "Other" category that I suspect contains a lot of other Ubuntu interim and older LTS releases.

	▲	Woberto 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Wouldn't there also be more mint versions in the other category?

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Apaec 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That would explain the recent move to rewrite things in Rust on Ubuntu, they need the marketing to grow their user base.

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currymj 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Steam Deck is Arch-based, that's most likely why.

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modeless 4 days ago | parent [-]

SteamOS is counted separately.

	▲	cwbriscoe 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, but a lot of linux games use an Arch distribution such as CachyOS since SteamOS also is. They get updates faster because of the rolling releases.

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machomaster 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I wonder how much Omarchy (based on Arch) made a dent... DHH said that it has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times.

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bigyabai 4 days ago | parent [-]

The hard part is never installing an Arch-like distro, it's making it past 5 sudo pacman -syu iterations without an AUR package going thermonuclear and requiring 45,000 pinned dependencies.

	▲	yoyohello13 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Just don’t use the AUR. Problem solved
	▲	aaomidi 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This isn't really a thing that's happening though?